Charlie Mackesy
speaker
718 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Jul
Charlie Mackesy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No, I think it probably is me.
I mean, I feel so grateful in my life.
Like if today was my last day, I would feel nothing but gratitude.
um for everything including the losses pains mistakes failures everything and the love and my friends and people i'll never ever meet who i felt or had messages from you're the heartbreaking one so i do hear it and i'm grateful um
But there's always the bit of me going, ah, but you don't really know me.
My cottage has piles of clothes in it and half-finished things.
I don't know.
Being an artist is a strange idea anyway, because everybody is.
We're all making things in different ways, whether it's a pie, or love, or a shirt, or making someone's day.
That's artistry in itself.
I don't know about all this artist word, but for me, you know, now, like when I go in my house, it's rammed with drawings.
And the ones in frames have all been exhibited and haven't sold.
So I'm surrounded by work that hasn't sold.
Hmm.
And I used to see it as work that has, now I just see it as a really important part of the process of making, you're on a journey somewhere and you have to make these to get somewhere else.
It's what you have to do.
So like breathing, to get to the door, you've got to breathe eight times, you know, so it's the same idea that
Keep breathing, keep making mistakes, keep trying, you know, and you get somewhere else, you move.
And for me now, making art is not about anything other than trying and enjoying it.
And not putting the pressure on yourself to sell, not putting the pressure on yourself to achieve some...
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